{"product_id":"the-fourth-dimension-9780691024653","title":"The Fourth Dimension","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn the dramatic monologues that make up \u003ci\u003eThe Fourth Dimension\u003c\/i\u003e--especially those based on the grim history of Mycenae and its royal protagonists--the celebrated modern Greek poet Yannis Ritsos presents a timeless poetic paradigm of the condition of Greece, past and present. The volume also contains a group of modern narratives, including the famous, and much-anthologized, Moonlight Sonata. Ritsos, rightly, regarded the \u003ci\u003eThe Fourth Dimension\u003c\/i\u003e as his finest achievement. It is now presented to English- speaking readers for the first time in its entirety. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e From Philoctetes \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e All the speeches of great men, about the dead and about heroes.\u003cbr\u003e Astonishing, awesome words, pursued us even in our sleep, \u003cbr\u003eslipping beneath closed doors, from the banqueting hall\u003cbr\u003ewhere glasses and voices sparkled, and the veil\u003cbr\u003eof an unseen dancer rippled silently\u003cbr\u003elike a diaphanous, whirling wall\u003cbr\u003ebetween life and death. This throbbing\u003cbr\u003eour childhood nights, lightening the shadows of shields\u003cbr\u003eetched on white walls by slow moonlight.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Yannis Ritsos\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Princeton University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/06\/1993\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 348\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.22h x 6.13w x 0.82d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780691024653\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/12\/1993\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePeter Green\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of Classics at the University of Texas in Austin. The author of numerous scholarly works, he has also written several volumes of historical fiction, including \u003ci\u003eThe Laughter of Aphrodite\u003c\/i\u003e (Murray\/World; paperback forthcoming from University of California Press). \u003cb\u003eBeverly Bardsley\u003c\/b\u003e, a free-lance translator, lives in Austin.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40087118807155,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":44.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_9d9bd349-127b-4f98-9352-a0870f4dfa72.jpg?v=1652538082","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/the-fourth-dimension-9780691024653","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}